Seniors
Related: About this forum2naSalit
(92,009 posts)Happens every day! Whatever it was that made sense ten feet ago...
Might come back in a minute, an hour or never.
3catwoman3
(25,344 posts)There's an interesting and reassuring reason for this.
LoisB
(8,485 posts)irisblue
(34,065 posts)Rhiannon12866
(220,583 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,703 posts)This is the way to start a DU session.
Set my coffee down somewhere. haha
AllaN01Bear
(22,913 posts)i knew a guy who could tell u every detail of the american civil war and not remember when he took his meds . now passed over the rainbow bridge.
3catwoman3
(25,344 posts)Basically, when we relocate, our brains prepare for the next experience by forgetting the previous one. I was so relieved when I learned about this a few years ago, as I was beginning to worry about myself. I'd be in the kitchen and think of something I needed from upstairs, and by the time I'd get upstairs, I'd have no damn idea why I was there.
https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/21/the-boundary-effect-entering-a-new-room-makes-you-forget-things/
whathehell
(29,639 posts)Glad to hear about this..I was identifying a bit too much with the OP.
ShazzieB
(18,444 posts)That would probably explain why going back to the room I started from tends to make the memory resurface!
It kind of feels like I left the memory behind in that other room, and when I return - "Oh, there it is!"
Then I walk back to the kitchen (or whatever the intended destination was), mentally repeating why I'm going there so I don't forget again.
This could also explain the "Where the hell did I park that damned car?" phenomenon.